memories for Jun 2

2016

2016 Jun 2
Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia

While the headline mentions the bad news, in truth, this study is hopeful since they were able to restore baseline pain signalling.

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2016 Jun 2
Who Needs Data Anyway?

I just came across a headline about how Donald Trump has no apparent interest in utilizing the IT infrastructure the Republic National Committee had built up with $100 million since Romney's failed campaign in 2012.

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2015

2015 Jun 2
Changing Mind and Fabricating Data

A few weeks ago I was listening to This American Life in the car with ミA彡 about how canvassers supposedly changed the minds of people regarding marriage equality.

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2015 Jun 2
Combating Hunger in Developing Countries

I can't remember how I ran into it, but I found a post on Facebook about how the local food movement is actually bad for the environment and that massively industrialized agribusiness is the best model for feeding the world's hungry.

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2012

2012 Jun 2
adversarial mood

Woke up feeling grim this morning. I wonder what this portends.

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2009

2009 Jun 2
the fractured city

Cover of The City and the City by China Miéville

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2009 Jun 2
the axes of the city

L.A. does have Cartesian axes in practice, even if they aren't really acknowledged. Broadway and 1st Street is origin. Addresses are numbered from here. The y-axis is Broadway, and it runs all the way from Lincoln Heights to Carson. The x-axis is 1st Street, which extends from the unincorporated area of East L.A. to just east of Beverly Hills (although not quite continuously.)

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2007

2007 Jun 2
quizzy-poos

My cousin J™ [1][2] loves this crap:

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2003

2003 Jun 2
Confounding Factors (with a Quick Primer on Psychoses)

The fine difference between an illusion and a hallucination. I need to get this shit out of my head, and I’m not talking about those damned voices.

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